Yesterday my friend Avi Yemini posted this hilarious video of an Israel-hater bringing a figurative knife to a gunfight, by starting up with Avi and making a total goose of himself.
I suspect this isn’t the only type of meltdown the guy has been involved in (think heroin, meth….) Nor the only time he has gone viral (think herpes).
Be that as it may, the goose seems determined to goose things up even more:
The video of his public meltdown went viral across social media — until now, when it appears he’s trying to get it taken down.
That’s right. After storming into my interview uninvited, ranting about Israel and refusing to condemn terrorism, this wannabe activist has apparently lodged a privacy complaint with YouTube over the footage.
Let that sink in: he interrupts me, in public, on camera and now that he’s embarrassed himself in front of the world, he’s trying to pretend it never happened.
It’s the classic Streisand effect. If you don’t know the term, it refers to when someone tries to hide or censor something, only to end up drawing even more attention to it.
I wonder if he’ll send Avi a takedown notice for his latest article exposing his embarassing attempt to get the video taken down.
Meanwhile, I am seeing more Zappa than Streisand.
